🌿WEB · James 2:14
What does James 2:14 mean?
"What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him?"
— James 2:14 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
For he who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not commit murder.” Now if you do not commit adultery, but murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.
So speak, and so do, as men who are to be judged by a law of freedom.
For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him?
And if a brother or sister is naked and in lack of daily food,
and one of you tells them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled”; and yet you didn’t give them the things the body needs, what good is it?
Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead in itself.
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